1. Into World War II

2. Situation in Japan Power in Asia Weak government Powerful military
Impact of Depression
Pacific Empire
Investment in Manchuria
Invasion of Manchuria
Image of Emperor

3. Power of Dictators Safe world for democracy? RIP
Fall of new democracies
Food for freedoms
Trust leader
Economic Improvements
Military Spending

4. League of Nations Dictatorships v. Democracies Opinions of USSR
Germany, Japan, Italy
US & USSR out
Britain & France
Avoiding war
Policy of appeasement

7. Invasion of China Japan invasion Manchuria (1931) League “response”
Japan left League
1937-Sino-Japanese war
Japanese military mite
Rape of Nanking
Chiang Kai-shek & Mao Zedong

9. Mussolini & Ethiopia Weak League Response to Japan Mussolini excited
Italian African Empire
Invasion of Ethiopia
League…help
League “response”
Hopes of peace

10. German Power Undo TOV Rebuilding military Troops into Rhineland
Turning point for Hitler
Rome-Berlin Axis
Japan, Germany, Italy Alliance

12. Development into 1930s Weak Responses Impact of Depression
Hopes to avoid war
US non-involvement
US Neutrality Acts
Spanish Civil War
Rise of Francisco Franco
Hitler & Mussolini aid
Test run for WWII

13. Germany Expansion Austria & Czechoslovakia Anschluss Austrian favor
Troops/referendum to people
Czechoslovakia Strengths
German-Czechs in Sudetenland
Hitler Demand for Sudetenland
Preparing for war…

15. Munich Conference Emergency Meeting
Neville Chamberlin, Hitler, Mussolini
Sudetenland to Germany
No More expansion
German invasion of Czechoslovakia
Failures of appeasement
Weak responses=war